Jonathan Jay Pollard

(born 1954). American civilian defense analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for having sold classified information to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres apologized for Pollard's activities and dissolved Israel's scientific intelligence agency that had worked with him.

Pollard was born on August 7, 1954, in Galveston, Texas. When he was young,

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